First and foremost, I send my sincere and
heartfelt condolences to all those who lost their loved ones on April 2, 2015
during the horrible attack by al-Shabaab terrorists at Garissa University
College in Kenya. There were at least 142 students from the total number of 148
people who were killed. Secondly, I strongly condemn the callous actions of the
killers who cut short the lives of those young and hopeful Kenyans, who had
nothing to do with their evil minds.

Apart from the above, I am angered that President
Uhuru Kenyatta rubbished the travel advisory issued particularly by the United
Kingdom government on March 27, 2015 which warned about an impending terror
attack in Garissa. “There is a high threat of kidnapping in the areas within
60km of the Kenya-Somalia border, in Garissa County and in coastal areas north
of Pate Island”, according to a section of the dispatch. Uhuru was cited in the
media on April 01, saying: “As much as they say they don’t want their taxi
drivers to come, President Obama has said he is coming.” The Interior Ministry
Cabinet Secretary (CS) Joseph Nkaissery, equally acted with disdain to the
warning by mentioning: “As government, we strongly believe that these
advisories are driven by considerations, other than insecurity.” A day later
when Garissa University College was attacked, Nkaissery responded that: “We were
taken by surprise.”

Uhuru has been reckless with his words in the
past, such as when he asked where the parents of a three year-old girl were,
when she was raped by her uncles last November. Which normal parent would
knowingly let their child be raped? Travel advisories by the European,
Australian and American foreign offices should be taken seriously by sharing
information across the security arms of the government to prevent unnecessary
deaths. If Uhuru has a personal problem with the British because of refusal by
the UK government to support Uhuru’s anti-ICC rhetoric since the son of
Kenyatta came to power, he should solve it instead of sacrificing the security
of millions of Kenyans.

Ironically, in 2013 Uhuru hired the London-based
British PR firm, BTP Advisers, to run his presidential campaigns which
reportedly cost 100 million euros (KES 10 billion). He has now added former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to his list of advisers. Uhuru’s family and
a small group of Europeans, mainly of British descent, own some four million
acres of land in Kenya. In 1943, Englishwoman Edna Clarke bore a son for his
late father President Jomo Kenyatta, named Peter Magana Kenyatta. Moreover, the
mother of Margaret, Uhuru’s wife, is German. He should therefore stop fooling
Kenyans that he has a problem with white people, yet he is filthy rich and is
much closer to them, than his poor sycophants.

Ineptitude and misplaced priorities

The Kenyatta regime has not learnt much since the
Westgate Mall attack by al-Shabaab in September 2013. The group continues to
kill knowing that the response by Kenyan security is often slow and
ineffective. Harrowing narratives are gradually coming from some of the Garissa
massacre survivors, who will remain scarred for life, because they either saw
or heard their colleagues dying painfully from gunshot or machete wounds. Media
reports indicate that it took seven hours for the Recce Squad of the General
Service Unit (GSU) to get orders to fly to Garissa, after being alerted at 6
a.m. The first responders who were regular police, were overwhelmed at the
scene and received support from the military personnel based at the Garissa
barracks. However, they could also not do much since they are not trained for
close combat like the GSU. Meanwhile, the four Shabaab members had a field day
taunting and laughing at the terrified students, whom they slaughtered without
fear.

Once again, Kenyans died mainly because they could
not be saved on time due to logistical and decision-making weaknesses that saw
the Interior CS Nkaissery and the Inspector General (IG) of Police Boinnet,
board a plane to Garissa instead of flying the Recce Squad there immediately.
The April 5, 2015 Sunday Nation newspaper has revealed that 18 members of the
GSU were eventually deployed to Garissa and within 30 minutes, they had killed
the Shabaab militants. It is claimed that the delay in flying the squad members
was due to their heavy equipment which could not fit into the available police
airplanes. The Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka has been quoted in the
Sunday Nation saying that the nine hours taken by GSU to respond was normal,
since they had many moving parts. Really?

When former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was
preparing to bury his late son Fidel Odinga in January 2015, President Uhuru
Kenyatta personally offered four military helicopters to ease transportation to
his rural home. Since he is the Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defense Forces,
why did he not order the military to provide choppers to deploy the Recce Squad
members immediately to Garissa? Talk about misplaced priorities. Most of those
students endured pain and psychological torture while trapped in their hostels
waiting to be butchered, yet Uhuru was sitting in Nairobi knowing so well that
he could have reduced the casualty by ordering a faster response. Has he ever
learnt from the past? Apparently not, since he has never bothered to visit
Mandera after the brutal killings of 28 teachers on a Nairobi-bound bus in
November 2014, and soon after, 36 quarry workers, by the Shabaab. When more
than 60 people were killed by al-Shabaab in Mpeketoni, Lamu County for two days
in June 2014, Uhuru was quick to blame local politicians, especially CORD, the
Opposition alliance. Later in early 2015, the Shabaab released a blood-chilling
video showing how they entered Mpeketoni and slaughtered innocent Kenyans.
Uhuru has never commented on the video and has no guts to call the killers by
their name, al-Shabaab, and always refers to them as “our enemy.”

Uhuru the non-caring president

When Garissa University was attacked, Kenyatta
went against a court ruling which had stopped the intake of police recruits in
2014, by ordering that they be taken for training immediately, at the police
college in Kiganjo. According to him, the country does not have enough security
personnel. However, the process had been stopped because of the bribes those
potential recruits had paid to the recruiting officers. Uhuru issued an
executive order on the matter, yet he could not exercise the same to reduce the
brutal murders of those innocent students in Garissa. It is beyond imagination
that four terrorists had a standoff with military troops for more than ten
hours.

Beyond the Shabaab attacks, Kenyans are generally
not secure and feel that the president does not care about them and only reacts
with threats when killings have already taken place. Uhuru mentioned in 2014
that Kenyans should be responsible for their own security. Maybe the
government’s slow response in Garissa was an example of what he meant. He
should be aware that the immediate former President Goodluck Jonathan of
Nigeria ran out of luck because Nigerians felt he had failed to stop the
perpetual killings by Boko Haram, and could not control corruption. As millions
of Kenyans remain disillusioned with Uhuru’s failure to keep security in Kenya,
and with the latest attacks at the University, there is every indication that
the situation will only get worse. Kenyans should anticipate more attacks
because the corrupt Uhuru government in incapable of governing, let alone keep
security. Kenya needs a regime change.